Methods: An expert panel of clinicians/researchers reviewed evidence published since 2014
and developed updated recommendations for interventions for cognitive-communication …

In acquired brain injury (ABI), social cognition is a contributing factor to the changes
observed in functional outcomes. However, progress in assessing and understanding social …

Pragmatic impairment is diffused in schizophrenia spectrum disorders, but the literature still
debates its neurocognitive underpinnings. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed …

There is now an extensive empirical literature on the nature and extent of pragmatic
disorders in a range of clinical populations. This chapter attempts to organize the findings of …

The specific contribution of focal damage of the prefrontal cortex and the cognitive
mechanisms accounting for communicative-pragmatic disorders remains unclear. The …

The Assessment of Pragmatic Abilities and Cognitive Substrates (APACS) test is a new tool
to evaluate pragmatic abilities in clinical populations with acquired communicative deficits …

Previous research has shown that communicative-pragmatic ability, as well as executive
functions (EF) and Theory of Mind (ToM), may be impaired in individuals with traumatic brain …

The aim of the study is to investigate the relationship among age, first-and second-order
Theory of Mind and the increasing ability of children to understand and produce different …

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the pragmatic abilities of patients with
schizophrenia in a variety of pragmatic phenomena expressed through different …

Patients with schizophrenia usually show an impairment in their communicative-pragmatic
performance; they also have difficulties in cognitive functioning and Theory of Mind (ToM). In …